El 32 conecta Vukov Spomenik - Visnjicа, una línea diurna, operada por GSP (librea amarilla) y otra compañía privada (librea azul y blanco) que se alternan cada viaje. Tiene una frecuencia de 9 minutos. El servicio funciona entre las 4.30 y las 23.15. Además, dispone de dos servicios cortos de refuerzo, 32Е ТRG Rеpublike - Visnjicа y 32L Оmladinski Stаdiоn - LЕSCЕ /Cemetery.Belgrade is the capital of the Republic of Serbia and the biggest and most populated city of the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Including its metropolitan area, over 1.650.000 people live there, being the fourth most populated city within Southeastern Europe, after Istanbul, Athens and Bucharest. It is located in the confluence of the Sava River with the Danube; hence, the city has those two “barriers” when moving around.

Its size and the difficulty of having both rivers requires a wide network of public transport, with buses, street cars and trolleybuses, operated by GSP Beograd, municipal company, in addition to 6 private companies. It is well prepared to encourage the use of the public transport, with the use of a card (ITS) that allows using it in all the vehicles, although just for a single trip. The tickets can be bought directly in kiosks or from the conductor.

The city has 118 day bus lines and 22 night services. All the lines are operated by GSP and a private company, whereas night services are only operated by private ones. GSP also operates 12 tramway routes, 8 of trolleybuses and 6 of minibuses. In addition, the network is complemented by more than 300 suburban lines, run by SP Lasta, although there are also other operators.

32 runs between Vukоv Spоmеnik and Visnjicа, a day service, operated by GSP and another private company, that alternate the trips. It has a frequency of 9 minutes. The service works between the 4.30 and 23.15. In addition, it has two short services, 32Е ТRG Rеpublikе - Visnjicа and 32L Оmladinski Stаdiоn - LЕSCЕ /Cemetery.

Tunis, capital of Tunisia, has a population of 1.200.000 and exceeds 4.000.000 with its metropolitan area. It is a city, located in the Gulf of Tunisia and it extends over the plain, reaching the hills nearby, with small buildings. Downtown still conserves the Medina (winding streets where market is concentrated).TRANSTU is the commercial name of Société des Transports de Tunis (STT) is in charge of the public transport of Tunis, offering lines of bus within the capital and the surrounding areas and running, normally every 30 minutes. Altogether, the city has 1.050 buses that give service to 206 lines. The livery of the buses is yellow with the upper part in white. The route is shown in a plastic sign where it indicates the line number and the destinies in Arabic and supposedly in French.The main bus/tram stations in the capital are Station du parc HABIB THAMEUR, Station Ali BELHOUANE, Station pleases BARCELONE and Station TUNIS MARINE. Other private companies are also in operation the TUT and TCV that also serve the interior of the city. In addition, since 1995, the city has a network of light rail, “métro-léger”, a much better way to move around than the bus. At the moment, 5 lines with two of reinforcement compose the network, that continues expanding and incorporating new vehicles.The 32 is a service of the Transtu, that starts in Habib-Thameur station and runs towards Cité Ezzouhour, where the 32 finishes, existing, in addition, 32C and 32D until Sidi Hassine

Toda una experiencia que ya está contemplada como una de las atracciones de la isla. Espero que la renovación de los autobuses quede simplemente en un cambio de motores menos contaminantes, y las carrocerías queden como emblema de la isla.If there is a place where a transport enthusiast can have a good time, that is Malta. It seems a living museum, where you can find buses from old times.

The country is small with just over 400.000 people. It is basically an archipelago composed mainly of the island of Malta and the Island of Gozo, as well as other little islands. Valletta is the capital, but not the place with more inhabitants which is Birkirkara with over 25000 inhabitants. Even thought it belongs to the European Union since 2004, there are a few aspects that are far away from the strict European norms. For example, Taxis are rather expensive. The Taximeter is mainly decorative, as it is hardly used, eventhough, you are entitled to ask for the use of it. Normally, you need to negotiate for the price to get back, and be warned, you will never get around, no matter where you go, for under 15 Euro. It is better you call them, as it is not normal to stop them in the street.

Malta seems to be stuck in time. Most of the routes depart from the Central Terminus Bus Station in Valleta. Public Transport is managed by the Assocjazzjoni Transport Pubbliku – ATP.

Approximately, there are 508 buses, most of them owned by the bus drivers themselves. Livery is bottom yellow, orange line around, and white top. In the Island of Gozo, the bottom is grey. Most of the buses are over 35 years, although in the 80s, some were brought in second hand from the UK. Nowadays, the government is helping through subsidies to renovate the fleet. Also, defying the European norms, buses run with open doors, if they are lucky to have one, something unthinkable in Europe.

But the curiosities don’t stop there. Buses run on a 'day on, day off' basis, whereby one day half of the buses operate on the public routes more or less for 12 hours, while the other half are used for private hire, school buses, or undergo maintenance.

The 32 leaves, as most of the rest of routes from Central Terminus Bus Station in Valleta. It heads south of the island to Zurrieq, passing near the airport. It is a rather wild service to control. It starts the day with a passing frequency of 10 minutes. From 8.45 to 10.45 there is no service. Then it comes back on a frequency of 20/30 minutes, something difficult to handle for those not used to the times. It doesn’t help the fact that the bus stops don’t have timetables either. Route 38 runs along the same way on an hourly basis, acting as a support, and in some journeys, it is substituted by either route 39 or 36. And you thought your city services were complicated.

This is a nice experience, considered already one of the attractions of the island. I hope that the renovation that the service is undergoing, will renovate the engines into ones less polluting, but will maintain the old bodies, that have become part of the Island monuments.

Bilbao has little more than 350,000 inhabitants and over 900,000 if we counted its metropolitan surroundings. The city is surrounded by mountains; it’s crossed by the Nervion River that creates a real limitation to the expansion of the city.

It has a network of urban buses managed by its city council, under the Bilbobus mark, in concession to the French company Veolia. It has 28 lines of bus, 8 of minibuses and 8 night services at the weekends called “Gautxoris”. In addition, it has a line of tramway operated by Euskotran and two lines of underground.

However, Bilbobus not has 32, so I have had to look in the Bizcaiabus network that operates throughout the province, with services numbered with four numbers. The first two correspond to the zone where they operate mainly: Encartaciones is the 33 (like the 3336, 3337), Left Bank the 31 (like the 3115, 3142), UPV the 23 (like the 2312, 2322), Right Bank the 32 (like the 3250, 3223), Nervión the 36 (like the 3621, 3631)… whereas the second number is the line itself.

So I have taken the 3632 that communicates Bilbao (Bailén St) with Basauri - San Miguel (via Begoña), with a frequency of 30 minutes. In addition, curiously, it is operated by TCSA, the concessionaire of the urban bus of Bilbao before Veolia wan the service in 2008. Transportes Colectivos has a fleet of about 130 buses, manages 36 of the lines of Bizkaibus, mainly connecting Bilbao, the Left Margin, the Nervión Stop, the Right Margin, the Airport of Bilbao and the UPV.

Calcutta, former capital of India, is one of the great Indian metropolises, together with New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. It has a population with its area metropolitan of over 13 million inhabitants. It is the State Capital of Western Bengal. A very traditional and conservative society.

Like in any big city, the distances are huge. For that reason, it has a wide network of public transport. It is striking to see the decrepit network of street cars that are still running and that are hardly used, due to bad management and abandonment. Also it has an underground that that is very much used. What is surprising is its dense traffic, the streets that change direction depending on the hour of the day and above all, its old buses. The bus tickets are very cheap, reason why, the buses highly are used. It has governmental and private buses. Of these last ones, we have two types, buses standard (with light blue and yellow livery) and micros (brown and yellow livery). During the day, the frequencies are very good. At night, as usual, not as much. As a curiosity, due to strong rains that fall during the monsoon season, sometimes the public transport is interrupted.

The 32 are operated by minibuses, which means it is a private line that connects Esplanade Bus terminus in the center with Dakshineswar. The microbuses, as it can be seen in the photos, are badly preserved, but they continue working and taking people around.

Montpellier is a city in the South of France, with over 260.000 people in the borough and nearly 500.000 in its metropolitan area.

Public transport is operated by TAM. The city is in the process of changing its bus network with trams. Two lines (34 kms) are already in operation and the 3rd line is undergoing construction. It still has 29 bus routes (urban and suburban) with a fleet of 175 buses.

The 32 is a suburban route, clearly identifiable with the type of bus used to do the route that connects Montpellier Rives du Lez and Villeneuve les Maguelone, with an hourly service during weekdays and 4 services on Sundays and festive days.

Clermont-Ferrand is a city in the centre of France, capital of Auvern Region and the department of Puy-de-Dôme, cerca de Lyon. With over 140.000 citizens, the city is an important industrial hub, being the Michelin factory why it is well known.

In the past few years, a tramway has been installed in the city. Curiously, the tram has only got one rail, running on neumatic wheels. How was Michelin going to get out of the streets? In fact, the use of ruber wheels is very common in underground systems in France (Paris, Rennes...)

T2C, from the French Keolis group, is the company in charge of transportation in the city, with 24 bus routes and one tramway.

32 runs a service on demand, between the centre (Gaillard) where it interchanges with the tram and Sayat Bel Air, with an additional route to Argnat Le Mas.

Lyon is the 3rd French city in terms of population, with over 1,750,400 inhabitants (4,400,000 with its metropolitan area). Its location makes the city rather complicated, due to the mountains and rivers that control its expansion.

Public transport is operated by TCL, from the Keolis group, servin 62 councils, including the 57 from Lyon's metropolitan area. The company runs 4 metro lines, 4 tramway routes, over 120 bus services (around 95 routes with standard buses, 3 bendy buses, 15 microbuses), 7 troleybus routes and two funiculars, as well as over 100 school services. All these bus routes are served by 1172 vehicles (not counting metros nor funiculars).

Route 32 connects Perrache railway station in the south of the city, with Grange Blance, in the Southeast of the city, after a peripherical route.

Currently, there are 121 routes that cover the whole island, with more than 28 million passengers per year and 320 guaguas (buses, in the local lingo) in its fleet, with an average of 6 years of age for their vehicles. The 32 links the tourist resort of Playa del Inglés with Puerto de Mogán, one of the most picturesque places in south Gran Canaria. The timetable is rather strange: from Monday to Friday, every 30 minutes, most part of the day, Saturdays, 9 services from Playa del Inglés and 11 from Puerto Mogán mainly in the morning. Sundays, no service. It is better to consult the web or the bus stops to check the timetables.

Gracias a Álvaro por hacerme la foto en sus vacaciones.Thanks to Álvaro for taking the picture while on holidays.

New York City is the most populated one in United States of Americas and the second biggest populated urban area in the World. It is composed of 5 boroughs (also County): Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. With over 8,4 million people in the whole state, Manhattan (1.593.200 inhabitants) is the most known as there you find the financial, commercial and cultural centre in the city. Queens (2.256.576 inhabitants) is the largest borough, where you find 2 of the 3 airports serving the metropolitan area: La Guardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport.Public transport is the main way of getting around for the people in the city. Curiously, New York is meant to be the only city in the USA where over half of the homes don't have a car. New York Underground is the biggest in the World (1.062 km) and also the network with the most active stations (468). It has 24 hour service in nearly 100% of the network. This also happens with the buses although there may be some exceptions, as we will see later. MTA, is the company that manages transport in the five boroughs. It has 4,578 (information from 2008), with 208 locales and 36 express routes throughout the 5 counties. Services are easily recognisable, as the lines are preceded by the letter of the county they run. M for Manhattan, Q for Queens, B for Brooklyn, BX for Bronx and S for Staten Island. You can pay by using the MetroCard or paying exact fare. Normally, buses run from every 5 to 15 minutes. Buses generally stop every other block on avenue routes and every block on cross-street routes.

Bus stops are well signalled and recognisable, showing the bus stopping. Sometimes, you can get Guide-a-Ride that includes information about the route plan and timetable. Access to the bus is done by the front door.

Q32 is a route that starts in Manhattan (7th Ave - Penn Station), near the Empire State Building, but soon crosses the bridge and runs around Queens until Jackson Heights where it has its terminal. According to its timetable, there are no services from 1.00 to 4.46am from Penn Station or from 1.25 am to 5.38 from Jackson Heights.

As you can see from the daylight picture, the bus uses the ramp for disabled passengers and it is using a hybrid electric bus... Who said America was not looking about the environment?Gracias a Javier y su esposa que en medio de sus vacaciones tuvieron tiempo para hacerme estas fotos... y contar alguna anédota.Thanks to Javier and his wife who, had some time in his holidays, to get these pictures for me... and be able to tell some annecdotes.

Nuremberg, in Germany's Bavaria, has over a million inhabitants. Like many other big German cities, public transport is well developed to give the best service possible to its citizens.

The city has 3 Underground lines (U-Bahn) and 6 tram routes (Straßenbahn), complemented by 350 buses serving 61 bus routes. They are all operated by VAG transport-corporation Nuremberg, which is council owned.

The 32 is a shuttle service between Thon U-Bahn station and the Airport. It runs every 20 minutes to one hour, depending on the time of the day. I would think that a future metro extension to the Airport could lead into the disappearance of this service.

On this occasion, the quality of the picture is not that good. Sorry for that.

Over 115000 inhabitants live in Orleans, a bit more than double do it in the metropolitan area, which makes this city famous fro Joan of Arc an important population centre, specially due to its proximity with Paris, that also makes it a sleeping city, although the city has a life of its own too.

Its transport network is operated by Semtao, from the Transdev group and has 32 bus routes, 4 of which are shuttles, and 6 routes on demand. Apart from that, they operate 1 tramway line, North-South from Fleury-les-Aubrais to Orléans La Source. In 2011, the second line will open from Saint-Jean-de-Braye to La Chapelle-St-Mesmin. A total of 220 buses, (approximately 60% of which are low floor) and 22 trams.

The 6 routes on demand, among which you can find 32, run under the name Filobus, and only run if reserved previously via telephone. The areas along which they run tend to be rather low demand; therefore, it doesn't justify having a frequent service. As for 32, it connects the bus station in SAINT-JEAN-DE-BRAYE (Point Bus Léon Blum) with CHECY La Guignardère. Due to the low demand, these services are operated with small vans.

Saumur is a French city in the Loire region, with just over 30.000 inhabitants. It has a network of buses, operated by Agglobus, from the Veolia group, with 8 routes (30-36 and the 11 which is a school service). It is a rather strange numbering, as there aren't any small numbers in operation. Additionally, it offers a service on demand.

Route 32 links the city centre with the Bagneux-Chantemerle district, in the south, that runs in a circle, to return back to the city centre. The 31, from the same stop in the centre, hits towards the west, up to Saint-Hilaire Hautes vignes, where, with a circular route, returns to the centre.

It is precisely in the centre where both lines get together. I am not sure why, but they created the route 32 - 31 and the 31 - 32, depending on which direction they go... I guess it will be related to some statistics where they found out that neighbours from one district continued to the other, and by doing this, they don't need to change bus. Curiously enough, this only occurs with these two lines, as the others are also radial, with terminus in the city centre but are not paired.

El 32 utiliza un autocar en vez de un autobús urbano y comunica Angers (Gare Routière) con la localidad de Soucelles. Los horarios son poco frecuentes con 17 servicios en día laborable y curso escolar, dos de ellos, servidos por la línea 30 desde Angers y 14 hasta la ciudad, 2 de ellos, también por la 30.Angers, in the Loire region, has a population of just over 160.000 people. Its urban transport network is managed by the company COTRA (Compagnie des Transports de la Région Angevine) that serves the city and 29 neighbouring councils in its periphery. COTRA belongs to the French Keolis group, and the new brand being Keolis Angers, that is slowly changing within the network. Nowadays, a North - South Tramway is being built, hopefully opening in 2010. As for buses, there are about 170 that serve 12 day urban services, 12 suburban lines, where we find the 32, 3 night routes (every night from 21.00 to 01.00 except for Sundays and Bank Holidays) and 5 Sunday services. Curiously, because of superstition, there is no route number 13, (which should be a night service).The 32 uses a interurban bus rather than an urban model and links Angers (Gare Routière) with Soucelles. Times are not good. 17 services on a school day, two of which are served by route 30. 14 trips back to the city, 2 of which run by the 30.

It's a 32 from the old times, in the English town of Guildford. It still shows the green suburban logo of London Transport. Currently, the route is operated by Arriva Guildford & West Surrey , between Guildford and Redhill, via Dorking. Buses have evolved since, and are now in the Arriva Livery standard as shown in the link. The service frequency is 60 minutes.

Nantes is a French city in Brittany. It has around 280.000 inhabitants but the metropolitan area increases total population to over 780.000.

Public transport is managed by TAN: 3 tramline (42 km) managed by Transamo + one Busway (7 km) -with articulated buses with reserved platform- 59 bus services, a shuttle to the airport, Reduced mobility services and On-request service too. Additionally, it operates the river boat service as well as the electric shuttle park&ride to the port. On the other hand, for night services, there are 8 routes, as well as special services for tramway and busway.

Service 32 started in 1976, serving the North-South corridors. Years later, with the introduction of tramway line 2, it was curtailed the current service, between Commerce (centre) and Bout des Landes. It is a Chronobus service, "title" given to frequent services (6 minutes weekdays). Currently, also routes 25 and 86 have the same status. In 2006, it was the first route incorporating the latest generation Heuliez GX 327 GNV buses. We could say it is like... "the teacher's pet".

Like the rest of the French cities, the traditional colour offered to the line is red background, white number.

Burdeaux has always been compared to Zaragoza, because its characteristics make them similar. However, as per population, the French borough has approximately 230.000 people, and altogether, in the metropolitan area, over 950.000. The Spanish borough is just 682.000 inhabitants and its metropolitan area doesn't reach 730.000. Great differences, I think.

Burdeaux has a very complete public transport network for the 27 municipalities that comprise the metropolitan area. It is operated by the French group Keolis, under the TBC name, a rather strange acronym, as it is normally used to refer to tuberculosis. Marketing ideas, I suppose. In figures, the company has 1993 workers, 74 trams, 449 buses (281 of which run on natural gas and 6 electric shuttle buses, for the narrow city roads), 26 vehicles for reduced mobility services. All in all, 72 day bus routes, 3 tramlines and the city centre shuttle. Also, 13 night services preceded by an S (Soir).

The 32 in Burdeaux, starts in the La Buttinière Interchange (bus/tram line A) in Lormont, serving a low populated area on the right bank of the Garonne, with its terminus in Floriac Interchange (bus/tram line A). In the city, services 3x are routes that begin and finish in the periphery. This may be the reason why its frequencies go between 30 and 60 minutes in day time. One way takes around 22 minutes and the last bus leaves at around 9 pm. France still maintains its colour scheme in lines, even now that the displays are electronic, although, not always is found. The traditional colour for 32 was light blue background and white numbers... curiously, like Zaragoza's

Zagreb is Croatia's capital. It is nearly 1 million inhabitants. Distances are not that big, but still the city is expanding, therefore, there is need for transportation.

It has a network of trams, buses and a funicular operated by the state own ZET: 19 tram routes, 130 day bus y 4 night services, as well as the before mentioned funicular. On weekdays, there are 270 buses running on the different routes, 186 on Saturdays and 123 on Sundays. As for trams, the company owns 191 trams, as well as 62 trailers, serving 15 routes (148 km) and 4 night ones (57km).

Route 32 is actually a night services, renumbered 17 during the day but running along the same tracks. There are 4 night services numbered (31, 32, 33 y 34). However, the day I was there, it was served by a bus... every 30 minutes... from 23.40 to 4.53, every day.

The route runs from the southwest of the city, PRESKO, serving the bus station, the city centre and then heading towards the East, BORONGAJ.

As you can see from the picture, I "caught" the 32 served by a 32 fleet number.

My good friend Massimo, sent me some days back, some information about the 132 in Buenos Aires. Curiously, I also had a picture of that line from my visit to Buenos Aires 3 years back (I think it was). I hadn't used it, because he had also sent me some information about the 32, and couldn't write more, but this is a time not to waste any picture... In this case, the 132, is operated by the company called Nuevos Rumbos S.A.T.A.C.I.F.I. (What a name!!! The Acronym is nearly longer than the name of the company...).

Same as with the 32, the 132 also has different variations to the route, shown below:

A total of 98 autobuses operate in this line and variants altogether... Recently, new articulated buses are being incorporated to the system, with Metalpar body and Mercedes Benz chasis and engine. Routes D & E are operated by 33% of the services, on workdays, from 8.00 to 20.00.

Montreal, is Canada's second city, with nearly 1.9 million inhabitants, in the French speaking part of the country. Montreal is a funny city. Like Manhattan, it is built in an island, so transit tends to merge in the main roads, with a serious problem of traffic jams. Public transport runs along wide (and no so wide) avenues, horizontal and vertically. Since 2002, it is managed by the STM (Société de Transport de Montréal), that incorporates the former companies from the different townships. Nowadays, it controls 4 metro lines totally integrated in the system, with 64 kms of tracks, as well as a wide fleet of over 1600 vehicles, serving 169 day routes and 20 night services.

The 32 is a cross line, that runs more or less northwest - north east along Cadillac St and Lacordaire Boulevard. It runs every 15 minutes throughout most part of the day, although at peak times, it can run every 7 minutes. It operates from 5.30 am to 1.30 am. The buses are prepared for handicapped people, although there are still some old buses, as shown in the second picture, where it is not possible.

Distances are big. Traffic is dense and slow and thank god it's bikes, because the roads could not handle the same number of cars. They say it's over 4 million motorbikes and only 500.000 cars.

Public transport is chaotic. The Government is trying to get bikes out of the road by designing new routes, although Vietnamese see their bike as their means of freedom. Transport is somehow privatised (strange in a Communist country...) and more than 30 bus companies are receiving subsidies that try to make services attractive, but are still leading the companies into hard times. There are in excess of 2,500 buses serving more than 115 routes through the different districts in Ho Chi Minh City as well as the nearby boroughs of Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Tay Ninh and Long An.

Ticket cost is extremely cheap (for a European mind). It's only 3000 Dong for less than 12km. (25000 Dong in 1 Euro). For trips over 12 kms, the price doubles. Working hours for buses are rather strange: from 5am to 8 pm.

Route 32 is operated by Xy Buýt Citranco, (City Transport Company, Ltd) part of the Saigon Bus Group with small 24 seater Hyundai microbuses. It runs every 10 minutes and due to its suburbial route and the narrow streets it needs to drive through, justifies the use of such small buses.

Out of curiosity, the company was granted a prize when they placed the Communist youth Union logo on all sizes of their buses, as well as in the driver's uniform. The company owns around 100 buses.